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Mankind must raise its own crown.The sad fact is, the name of MAN is spelled today in very small letters. It is spelled so the world over, so much so that the divine reflection that underlies the nature of man has become almost meaningless. This, however, can be changed. No matter how deep the discounting of the nature of man has become, it can be corrected. According to Red Cross reports, mankind has placed 120 million land-mines into the fields of its neighbors. They can be removed, can they not? The land-mines were placed there to rip each other's soldiers apart, but few do. Most remain in the ground long after the wars end, ripping apart the farmers, children at play, and other civilians as they go about their daily tasks of caring for their families. The statistics are horrifying, but they can be reversed. None-the-less, few efforts are made at the present time to remove the mines, or even to halt their production. Land-mines are cheap to produce, with an average price tag of under ten dollars. They are a cost-efficient way of killing people, compared to artillery bombardment or tank deployment. But this too, can be changed. The planet can become clean again. Mine sweeping is not a difficult technological problem, and protecting people from harm is an economic gain. All that is required is a proper estimation of the value of the human being. The poison that the oligarchy of the world has transplanted into many a heart, by equating man to a worm or a cancer on the face of the earth, can be drained from the mental environment of mankind's self-awareness. This can be accomplished through a commitment to the synonyms for God - Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Truth, Life, and Love - as qualitative aspects that fundamentally define human nature. Herein value is found for humanity. The most cost-efficient weapon in killing people, according to government figures published in the 1950s, is the hydrogen bomb, which lowers the price of killing to something in the order of eight cents per person killed. Cost-efficiency, apparently even matters to the terrorists, or did so until the terrorist movements became more solidly funded through the narcotics networks. It was reported some years back that the Shining Path terrorists in Peru would line up the children of their victims, three deep, so that they could be shot more cheaply with a single bullet. But this cost consideration will fall by the wayside as the desire for killing people is alleviated by a commitment to life, to the reflected image of Life, Truth, Love, Soul, Principle, Mind, and Spirit in human affairs. If God is dead in human hearts, that is, if the divine synonyms have no meaning, society is dead, and that condition will manifest itself accordingly. Today, even the word, Jesus, is largely shunned. Perhaps it has become irrelevant through utterly distorted concepts. The focus in Mary Baker Eddy's work was never on the iconoclasticized Jesus, but on the principles he understood. This process of discovering underlying principles and their application still needs to be established today. This is what the term, Christianity, signifies. If Christianity is a belief system centered around an icon called Jesus, it is useless. The same must be said about all the other religions and their icons, whoever they are. But if the search that they all signify in their individual approaches, is for absolute Truth and fundamental principle, redemption is possible in a universal way, for then the focus is on reality and the principles that operate in reality. This redeeming approach must be scientific, of course, even though the redemption itself is not a scientific process, but results from understood Truth. The names Jesus, or Mohamad, or whoever, carry no weight in the world of reality, but they do signify individual contributions to mankind towards a fuller perception of the reality that surrounds and supports man's being. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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